Across my memory | Ben Beast

chapter ten - blo-er

Lonnie saw the look on her face and grinned happily. "Told you, you'd like it. You should keep it-"

Ana looked at her wide-eyed. "Really? But you already given me so much, I-"

"Nonsense! I have tons of perfume from my Mom's last trip to China. Take it! It's yours."

"I..." Ana stared at her roommate before smiling. "Thank you..." She muttered quietly, but Lonnie heard it.

"Your welcome!" She beamed at the redhead. "Now come. Let's head out, breakfast starts in like 5 minutes and I'm starving!" Lonnie said, looping her arm around hers.

Ana chuckled lightly, grabbing her bag from the love seat, Lonnie leading them out of their dorm.

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Ana ignored the stares as she passed by the school hallways, thankfully Lonnie was at her side as Mal and Evie's lockers were in the next hallway.

She was used to the stares back in the Isle, but now that she was in Auradon, it made her feel a bit uneasy.

They just got out of the cafeteria after having breakfast in there.

She felt stuffed after eating all those delicious fruits and a fluffy breakfast meal called pancakes.

Her friends thought so too as they also devoured their meal.

Food was a big issue on the Isle.

They were used to getting scraps of food and there was barely any fresh fruit there.

And if there was any fruit, it was rotten or was from the trash.

"Okay!" Lonnie exclaimed, pulling her in front of a locker that was just like the others except the numbers on the front. "Here is your locker, you can store whatever you like during the day. You can also leave some stuff for your classes tomorrow."

Ana nodded in understanding, fishing out the locker combination from her back pocket. Opening the crumpled paper, she followed the range of numbers and successfully opened the door.

It was empty except the mirror that hanged on the back of the door. She slipped off her bag and hanged it up on one of the hooks of the locker.

"So, my locker is 256, it's just a few lockers down, you can come to me whenever you need some help, okay?"

Ana smiled at Lonnie gratefully, nodding before grabbing some notebooks from her bag. "So what are we doing first?" She asked, storing some on the shelf.

"Oh, I have Dr. Fitzherbert's Guide to Biology first. Did you get your schedule from Doug?"

Ana nodded fishing out her brand new phone.

Doug gave it to her this morning and she had no idea how to work the thing.

"Uh... I think so? Here, can you check?" Ana asked Lonnie, who nodded, ready to help.

Lonnie scrolled through her phone before looked at her apologetically. "Oh, you have Remedial Goodness 101 first..." She said.

"Oh..." Ana tried not to let her sadness show, she couldn't be that attached to her new friend already.

"We can meet each other later though." Lonnie said optimistically. "I can introduce you to my friends too."

Ana smiled tightly, not entirely comfortable at the thought. "Sure." She forcefully said.

Lonnie smiled and gave her a side hug. "Cool! I'll call you later, okay? Bye Ana!"

As Ana waved goodbye to the raven haired girl, she turned back to her locker when someone caught her eye.

Ben stood a few feet from her with Audrey, instead of his pajamas from last night, he wore a white button up, popping open the first button, he paired it with a blue suit jacket and some matching trousers.

His hair was styled, in a sort of messy way, and guessing by the way his sleeves were folded, he rushed just to be on time.

Guys and girl surrounded the couple as they all laughed and joked around.

Ben had a small smile on his face as he listened to one of the guys, Audrey nodding along as she clung unto him.

Ana's eyes widened when Ben met her gaze and flashed her a smile.

He stared back at her for a few more seconds, before turning back to friends, with a slight blush.